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.BIZ Businesses (Domain Name) [Internet]

.BK! Backup (file name extension) [WordPerfect]

.B~K Backup (file name extension)

BKSP Backspace

BL Backlit + Bit Line

BLAST Bell Labs Layered Space Time +

Blocked Asynchronous Transmission (protocol)

[Communications Research Group]

.BLD BASIC Bload Graphics (file name extension)

BLE Branch if Less or Equal

BLER Block Error

BLK Block

BLMC Buried Logic Macrocell

BLOB Binary Large Object

BLOG Web Log

BLOS Branch if Lower Or Same

BMI Branch if Minus

BMIC BusMaster Interface Controller [Intel]

BMP Basic Mapping Support + Basic Multilingual Plane +

Batch Message Processing Program

.BMP Bitmap (file name extension) [Paintbrush Format]

BNC Bayonet Neill-Concelman (connector used with

coaxial cable invented by Mr. Neill-Concelman) +

British Naval Connector

BNE Branch if Not Equal

BNF Backus-Naur Form (also Backus-Normal Form) [developed by

John Backus and Peter Naur]

BNS Backbone Network Service

BO Binary Output

BOA Basic Object Adapter

BOB Break-out Box

BOC Basic Operator Console

BOF Beginning Of File

BOM Basic Online Memory [IBM] + Beginning Of Message

BOND Bandwidth On Demand

BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol [Internet]

BOPS Billion Operations Per Second

BORPQU Borland Pro Quattro

BORQU Borland Quattro

BOS Basic Operating System

BOT Beginning Of Table + Beginning of Tape + Robot

BP Base Pointer

BPB BIOS Parameter Block

BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Unit

Berkeley Packet Filter

BPI Bits Per Inch

BPL Branch if Plus

BPP Bits Per Pixel

BPR Broadband Provisioning Registrar [Cisco]

Business Process Re-engineering [Linux]

BPS Bits Per Second + Bytes Per Second

BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying

BR Bad Register

BRGC Binary Reflected Gray Code

BRI Basic Rate Interface + Brain Response Interface

BS Backspace

BSAM Basic Sequential Access Method

BSC Base Station Controller + Binary Synchronous Communication

.BSC Boyan Script (file name extension) [Boyan Communications]

BSCS Bachelor of Science (Degree) in Computer Science

BSD Berkely Software/Standard Distribution

BSF Bit Scan Forward

BSI British Standards Institute

BSM Basic Storage Module [IBM]

BSP Bulk Synchronous Parallelism

BSR Bit Scan Reverse

BS-RAM Burst Static RAM

BSS Block Started by Symbol

BST Binary Search Tree

BSY Busy

BSYNC Binary Synchronous Communications (protocol)

BT Bit Test

BTAM Basic Telecommunications Access Method [IBM]

BTB Branch Target Buffer

BTC Bit Test and Complement

BTI Business Type Identifier

BTOA Binary To ASCII

BTP Batch Transfer Program

BTR Bit Test and Reset

BTS Base Transceiver Station + Bit Test and Set

BU Branch Unit

BUBL Bulletin Board for Libraries [Janet]

BUF Buffer

BUS Broadcast and Unknown Server

BVH Base Video Handler

BWM Block-Write Mode

B2X Binary To Hexadecimal [REXX]

BYTE Binary Element String

C...

C C Programming Language

.C C source code (file name extension) [C]

CA Certification Authority + Collision Avoidance

CAB Compressed Application Binary [Microsoft]

.CAB Cabinet (file name extension) [Microsoft]

CACLS Command-Line Access Control Lists [Microsoft]

CAD Computer Aided Design

CADD Computer Aided Design and Drafting

CADE Client/server Application Development Environment

CAE Client Application Enabler + Common Applications

Environment + Computer Aided Engineering

CAEN Chemically Assembled Electronic Nanocomputer

CAEX Computer Aided Exploration

CAG Column Address Generator

CAI Computer Aided Instruction

CAIRN Collaborative Advanced Interagency Research Network

CAL Calendar + Client Access License +

Computer Aided Learning

CALS Computer-Aided Acquisition in Logistic Support

CAM Common Access Method + Computer Aided Manufacturing +

Contents Addressable Memory

CAN Cancel + Controller Area Network

CANBUS Conroller Area Network Bus

CAP Carrierless Amplitude and Phase-Modulation +

Central Arbitration Point +

Communication Application Platform +

Competitive Access Provider +

Computer Aided Publishing

.CAP Capture (file name extension)

CAPD Computing To Assist Persons With Disabilities [Johns

Hopkins University]

CAPE Concurrent Art-to-Product Environment

CAPS Capitals (Upper Case Letters) +

Cassette Programming System

CAR Committed Access Rate [Cisco]

CARL Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries [Internet]

CART Computer-Assisted Radar Tomography

CAS Column Address Select/Strobe +

Communications Application Specification +

Computer Aided Styling

CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering

CASL Crosstalk Application Scripting Language [DCA]

CASS Computer Assisted Search Service

CASSIS Classified and Search Support Information System

CAT Computer Adaptive Test + Computer Aided Testing +

Computer Aided Tomography +

Computer Aided Transcription + Concatenate

.CAT Catalog (file name extension)

CATS Computer Assisted Training System

CAT SCAN Computerized Axial Tomography Scan

CATV Community Antenna Television (this was the original

name for what is now known as Cable TV)

CAU Controlled Access Unit

CAV Constant Angular Velocity

CAVE Computer Automatic Virtual Environment

CBC Cipher Block Chaining

CBCR Channel Byte Count Register

CBDS Connectionless Broadband Data Service

CBEMA Computer and Business Equipment

Manufacturers Association

CBGA Ceramic Ball Grid Array

CBI Computer Based Instruction\Instrumentation

CBL Computer Based Learning

.CBL COBOL source code (file name extension)

CBMS Computer-Based Mail System

CBN Community Based Networks

CBR Case Based Reasoning + Constant Bit Rate

CBT Computer Based Training

CBW Convert Byte to Word

CBX Computer-Controlled Branch Exchange

CC Cluster Controller

CC: Carbon Copy

CCD Charged-Coupled Device

CCFT Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube

CCI Common Client Interface

CCIE Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert [Cisco]

CCITT Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et

Telephonique/ Consultative Committee for International

Telegraph and Telephone

CCL Connection/Cursor Control Language

CCM Corba Component Mode

CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate

CCNP Cisco Certified Network Professional

CCP Certified Computing Professional +

Console Command Processor

CC/PP Composite Capabilities/Preference Profile

CCS Common Command Set + Common Communications Services +

Common Communications Support +

Continuous Composite Servo + Cryptographic Checksum

.CCS Color Calibration System (file name extension)

CCSD Cellular Circuit-Switched Data

CCTLD Country Code Top-Level Domain

CD Carrier Detect + Change Directory +

Collision Detection + Color Display + Compact Disk

C/D Control Data

C2D Character To Decimal [REXX]

CDA Compound Document Architecture [DEC]

.CDA CD Audio-Track (file name extension)

CDBT Compact Disk-Based Training

CDC Connected Device Configuration +

Control Data Corporation

CD_CHRDY Card Channel Ready [IBM]

CD-DA Compact Disk - Digital Audio

CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interface

CDE Common Desktop Environment + Complex Data Entry

CD-E Compact Disk - Erasable

CDF Channel Definition Format

.CDF Comma Delimited Format (file name extension)

CDFS Compact Disc File System [Microsoft]

CD+G Compact Disk plus Graphics

CD-I Compact Disk - Interactive

CDIA Certified Document Imaging Architect

CDL Computer Design Language

CDMA Code Division Multiple Access

CDMF Commercial Data Masking Facility [IBM]

CD-MO Compact Disk - Magneto Optical

CDO Collaboration Data Objects [Microsoft]

CDOS Concurrent Disk Operating System

CDP Certificate In Data Processing (First certification

for Computer Professionals)

CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data

CDR Call Detail Record + Call Detail Recording +

Common Data Representation

.CDR CorelDRAW (file name extension) [Corel]

CD-R Compact Disk - Recordable

CD-RAM Cached RAM

CD-RDx Compact Disk - Read Only Memory Data Exchange Standard

CDRL Contract Data Requirements List

CD-ROM Compact Disk - Read Only Memory

CD-ROM-XA CD-ROM Extended Architecture

CD-RTOS Compact Disk - Real Time Operating System

CD-RW Compact Disk - Rewritable

CDS Current Directory Structure

CDSA Common Data Security Architecture

CDSL (See DSL)

.CDT Corel Draw Template (file name extension)

CD-V Compact Disk - Video

CD-WO Compact Disk - Write Once

.CDX Compound Index (file name extension) [Fox Pro]

CD-XA Compact Disk - Extended Architecture

CE Cache Enable + Chip Enable + Collision Elimination +

Convert Enable

CEC Certified E-Commerce Consultant

CEG Continuous Edge Graphics

CEI Conducted Electromagnetic Interference

CELP Card Edge Low Profile (socket) [Intel]

CEMS Constituent Electronic Mail System

CEOP Conditional End Of Page

CER Canonical Encoding Rules

CERN The European Particle Physics Laboratory (initials

originally from Conseil Europien pour la Recherche

Nucliaire)

CERT Computer Emergency Response Team

CFB Cipher Feedback + Configurable Function Block

.CFG Configuration (file name extension)

CFM Code Fragment Manager [Macintosh] +

Cubic Feet Per Minute

CFML ColdFusion Markup Language

CFR Computerized Facial Recognition

CFS Caching/Common File System

CFV Call For Votes [Bitnet]

CG Control Gate

CGA Color Graphics Adapter

CGE Common Graphics Environment

CGI Computer Generated Images + Computer Graphics Interface

CGI-BIN Common Gateway Interface - Binary

.CGM Computer Graphics Metafile (file name extension) +

Graph (file name extension) [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC]

CGS Continuous-Grain Silicon

CHAP Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol

CHAR Character

CHAT Conversational Hypertext Access Technology [Internet]

CHCK Channel Check

CHCP Change Code Page

CHDIR Change Directory

CHFN Change Finger [Unix]

CHGRP Change Group

CHIPS Clearinghouse Interbank Payments System

.CHK CHKDSK (file name extension)

CHKDSK Check Disk

CHMOD Change Mode

CHOWN Change Owner

CHP Chapter

CHR Character

CHRP Common Hardware Reference Platform

CHS Cylinders, Heads, Sectors

CHTML Compressed HTML

CI Component Interface

CIA Current Instruction Address

CIAC Computer Incident Advisory Capability

CICS/VS Customer Information Control System/

Virtual Storage [IBM]

CID Charge-Injection Device +

Configuration/Installation/Distribution

CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing

CIF Common Interchange/Intermediate Format +

Crystallographic Information File +

Customer Information Feed

CIFS Common Internet File System

CIL Common Intermediate Language [ECMA]

CIM Common Information Model +

CompuServe Information Manager +

Computer Integrated Manufacturing

CIO Chief Information Officer

CIOCS Communication Input/Output Control System

CIP Command Interface Port + Common Indexing Protocol

CIR Committed Information Rate

CIRC Circular Reference +

Cross-Interleaved Reed-Solomon Code

CIS Card Information Structure + Client Information System +

CompuServe Information Service +

Computer Information Systems + Contact Image Sensor +

Customer Information System

CISC Complex Instruction Set Computing

CIT Computer-Integrated Telephony

CIVR Computer and Interactive Voice Response

CIW Certified Internet Webmaster

CIX Commercial Internet Exchange +

Compulink Information Exchange

CJLI Command Job Language Interpreter

CKD Count Key Data (device)

CLAR Channel Local Address Register

CLASS Client Access to Systems and Services +

Cooperative Library Agency for Systems and Services +

Custom Local-Area Signaling Services

CLC Clear Carry Flag

CLD Clear Direction Flag

CLDC Connected Limited Device Configuration

CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier

CLI Call-Level Interface + Clear Interrupt Flag +

Client Library Interface + Command Line Interface +

Common Language Infrastructure/Interface

CLIB C Library

CLID Calling Line Identification

CLIST Command List

CLK Clock

CLNP Connectionless Network Protocol

CLOS Common Lisp Object System

CLP Cell Loss Priority + Constraint Logic Programming

.CLP Clipboard (file name extension) [Microsoft]

CLR Common Language Runtime [Microsoft]

CLS Clear Screen + Common Language Support

CLSID Class Identifier

CLTP Connectionless Transport Protocol

CLTS Clear Task Switch Flag

CLTV Constant Linear Time Velocity

CLUI Command Line User Interface

CLUT Color Look-Up Table

CLV Constant Linear Velocity

CM Centimeter + Control Mark + Corrective Maintenance

CMA Concert Multi-thread Architecture

CMC Common Mail Calls + Common Messaging Calls +

Communication Management Configuration +

Complement Carry Flag +

Computer-Mediated Communication [Internet]

CMD Circuit Mode Data

.CMD Command (file name extension)

CMF Creative Music Format

CNIDR Clearinghouse for Network Information and

Discovery and Retrieval [Internet]

CMIP Common Management Information Protocol

CMIS Common Management Information Services/System

CML Chemical Markup Language + Conceptual Modelling Language +

Computer Managed Learning + Current Mode Logic

CMM Capability Maturity Model

CMMS Computerized Maintenance Management Software

CMMU Cache/Memory Management Unit [Motorola]

CMOS Coats-Mellon Operational Specification +

Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

CMOV Conditional Move

CMP Compare + Computer

CMPS Compare Word String

CMS Call Management Server + Code Management System +

Compiler Monitor System + Conversation Monitor System

CMTS Cable Modem Termination System

CMVC Configuration Management Version Control [IBM]

CMW Compartmented Mode Workstation

CMY Cyan-Magenta-Yellow (color model)

CMYK Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black (color model)

CNA Certified NetWare/Network Administrator

CNAPS Co-Processing Node Architecture for Parallel Systems

CNC Computerized Numerical Control

CNE Certified NetWare Engineer

.CNF Configuration (file name extension)

CNG Calling (tone)

CNI Certified Novell Instructor [Novell]

CNIDR Clearinghouse for Networked Information and

Discovery and Retrieval [Internet]

CNN Composite Network Node

CNR Carrier to Noise Ratio + Communication Network Riser

CNSS Core Nodal Switching Subsystem [Internet]

.CNT Contents (file name extension)

CNV Conventional (pertaining to Memory)

CNVT Convert

CNX Certified Network Expert

CO Central Office + Command Output + Convert Out

COAST Card On A Stick (module)

COAX Coaxial Cable

COB Chip-On-Board

.COB COBOL source code (file name extension)

COBOL Common Business-oriented Language (See HLL)

.COD Code List (file name extension)

CODASYL * Conference on Data System Languages (Group that

designed COBOL)

CODE Client-Server Open Development Environment

CODEC Coder/Decoder + Compression/Decompression

COEM Commercial Original Equipment Manufacturer

COFF Common Object File Format [Unix]

COGO Coordinate Geometry (Programming Language)

COL Collision + Computer Oriented Language

COLD Computer Output to Laser Disk

COLL Collision

COM Component Object Model [Microsoft] +

Computer Output Microfilm

.COM Command (file name extension) +

Commercial Business (Domain Name) [Internet]

COM1 First serial Port (asynchronous port)

COM2 Second serial Port

COM3 Third serial Port

COM4 Fourth serial Port

COMDEX Computer Dealers Exposition

COMET Cornell Macintosh Terminal Emulator

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A glossary of computer terms download to desktop…